Mario Kart Deserves Better Than A Bunch Of Mobile Tracks

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Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is great. Gr8, if you will. I haven’t played it in a long while, but I loaded it up again in the wake of this week’s Nintendo Direct, and it holds up. When I first got a Switch and everyone was racing around Big Blue and Dragon Driftway, it was great. As with many multiplayer games, playing with friends is the best way to extract fun from Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, but even racing strangers eight years after its release is exhilarating.

It’s got everything you could ever want from an arcade kart racer. The courses are varied, the turns are sharp, and the characters are those guys, girls, and… dinosaurs that you know and love. The Mario Kart formula is top tier, and 8 Deluxe is vying for the title of the best in the series. It’s up there with Double Dash.

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With everyone on social media seemingly calling for Mario Kart 9, I expected to jump into a game that feels older than 8 does. But we don’t need a sequel, and likely won’t until Nintendo releases its next, more powerful piece of hardware. What we could do with, however, is fresh new courses. Wait, they’ve announced what?

Yes, you likely already know that Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is getting new courses. 48 of them, to be precise. We’ll be drip fed them over the next two years, taking this title to a ten-year lifespan. This is great news, as new and returning courses will keep the game fresh beyond its years. But then Nintendo showed off a few of the incoming courses and they looked… off.

Although this is not confirmed yet, it looks like the courses are being ported from Mario Kart’s mobile iteration, Mario Kart Tour, rather than being remade or otherwise improved upon for their Switch debuts. Of